Lara not guilty on corruption charges

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BRIAN LARA, the West Indies batsman, has been cleared of match-fixing charges after a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) investigation. Elliott Mottley, the Barbadian attorney-at-law, investigated the charges but found no evidence in support of allegations made against Lara in a report by the bureau of criminal investigations of India in 2000.

The report alleged that Lara had received money for under-performing in two one-day international matches during the West Indies tour to India in 1994.

“Mr Mottley’s investigation on behalf of the West Indies Cricket Board has indicated that the allegations made against Brian were unfounded and not supported